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“The talent is in the choices.”
- Robert De Niro
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Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward in Paris Blues (1961)
Sweden does the one positive thing for its prisoners America never will
After decades of bipartisan consensus on criminal justice policy, there are some signs that the federal government thinks that the highly punitive system of mass incarceration seems to have gotten out of hand, and some states are making gestures toward making prisons less crowded.
In Nordic countries, like Sweden, prison is not about inflicting punishment and pain.
An Iranian Jew prays during morning service in Tehran Synagogue on December 27, 2011 in Tehran, Iran. UPI/Maryam Rahmanian
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51 years later, Leonard Bernstein’s comments on violence are more relevant than ever
On Nov. 22, 1963, when composer, conductor and musical luminary Leonard Bernstein heard that President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated in Dallas, the news shook him to his core. Kennedy had been a champion of the arts and a dear friend to Bernstein. So when he received an invitation to conduct a televised tribute concert in Kennedy’s memory, he knew he couldn’t celebrate him in any conventional way.
Politicizing and Islamophobia, here are the worst reactions by Americans to the Paris attack
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